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E. ASAMUEL 8v Vv. ANGEREILV TRANSFER TABLE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICn."-`

" ,EDWARD SAMUEL AND VICTOR ANGERER, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL- VANIA,AssIeNoRs To THE WILLIAM wHARToN, Jn., .e COMPANY, IN.. v-

CORPORTED, OF SAME PLACE.

sPncIFICATIoN forming' part ef' Letters Patent No. 537,720, dated April1e, lees.

. 'Applicants nea December 7, ieee. l 'sean No. 493,023. (No man.)

To all whom/ twenty-concern: y Be it'known that We, EDWARD SAMUELandVIoTonANeEItER, both citizens ofthe United States, and residents ofPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvementsin.Transfer-Tables,et'` which the following 4is a specification.

The object of ourinvention is to soconstruct a transfer table `fortransferringcars from one track to another as to dispense with the pitusuallyemployed in whichlthe transfer truck travels.

1 A further object of the present invention is to makethe rails of therailway track permanent and to providevthe` transfer table withhingedrails or skids which can be let down upon the rails of the trackso' that a car can' be directed yontothe transfer table.v

In the accompanying drawingsz--Figure 1,"

isa plan view of our improvedtransferfftabla Fig. 2, is a sideview. Fig.Sfis an end view.

Fig. 4, is a plan view of part of oneef the skids drawn to'an .enlargedscale. '-Fi'g. 5, isV aside` view of one of the skids 'raised5and-v Fig.6, issa'siiniljaitview showing the skid lowered.

A, Aare the railwaytracks. l Bare thext'racks forthe transfertable. D'.The transfer tracksare preferably on' the same plane as therailwayvtracks but` they 'naybe slightly depressed lor slightly raisedA`without departing from our invention. The `.transfer table D itself isinail cases above the level of therailway tracks..

VThis truck or 'transfer table cansbe 'made of;` AIll-beams, asshowli inthe drawingsor maybe "departing from of r invention made of wood,orither metal shapes without The longitudin lgirdersd,.ci',are arrangedon the outer side of the rails o, a d these girders lare mounted liponthetran verse beams d? having boxes' foil-the ailles C of. thewheelc.which traverse the transverse tracks.` Secured to'the girders are theintermediate supporting beams d2 whichs'upport the tracks c, c. Thesetracks, in the presentjinstance, are made of angle bars in ordertovbring them as near as possible to the 4plane of the railway tracks,

but they may be madeof other shapes without departingvmfromj ourinvention. a

Pivotedat leach side of the transfer table are skids E, E, having railse e, which`a1ign with the rails c of the transfer table, and also whenthe t'ransfertable is -Inoved into position align withthe rails'oftherail'way track. Tie rods e' tiethe rails of the skids together sothat they will be perfectly rigid. The skids can be raised and loweredby any suitable mechanism, andmay be eithereonnected together as showninthe drawings so that both skids will. move in unison, or may beindependentlvmovable It will thus be seen that when the skids are'lowered to the position shown in Fig. 6, a car can be transferred fromthe 'track onto the table, after which theskids ycanfbe raised and thetable moved to align with another track, and the skids again'lowered sothatthe car can be transferred .to the trackwith which the transfertable aligns. l

Weprefer to raise and lower the s kids at bothsides f the table iinunison and by the devices shown in the accompanying drawings, and .whichwe will now proceed to describe.-

'The skids E are pivoted'by pivot pins f to brackets F secured to theedge of the table and mounted in the lower' portion of each bracket Fisa rock shaft Gfn extending fronI one'v side .of the skid to the other.On this to a hand lever `Gr2 pivoted at g' to the-frame" ofthe table.The shaft, arm and connecting rod are duplicated atthe opposite side ofthe rock shaft is an arm G connected by arod g` 1- table, .and the rodis connected to the lever G2 on the opposite side ot' its fuleruintothat of the other rod., so that when the lever is moved to theposition shown by dotted linesfin Fig.

1, the arms'v G will other. 1- A On each end of the shaft G are cams vhwhich "act upon' lugs e2 depending from the. side bars orrails c of theskid E, so that as the shaft is be drawn toward 'each roc/lied asdescribed above the cams will act` upon-the lugs, and raise the skid tothe .po'si-A tionu shown in Fig. 5, clear yofthe tracks of thel I'ilway. Thusit will be'seen that by a simple .V

ovteinent f the hand lever, the skids can be raised or loweredsimultaneously.`

Secured to the side barser rails e of the l skid are supporting blockses which rest upon the rails of the railway so as t0 give a rigidsupport to the` skids between the points and the table, and secured tothe inner side of each rail of the skids areplates e4l which passdown lon one side of the rails of the railway, locking 5 the skids to therails andpreventing them moving laterally. f

g We claim as our inventionvl. I he combination inr a transfer table, ofthe skids pivoted to each side ofy the table, and lifters for each skidanda lever connected `to each-lifter, substantially'as described.

2. AThe combination ofthe rails ofthe rail. way track, the transverserails for the transfer' table on Soron about=the same plane as the 15railway rails,the transfer table, .rails on said transfer table,with'askid 4aligning with said rails and pivoted tothe-table, andlevermechanism for raising or loweringl the skid, sub- "stantia-lly asdescribed,

transverse rails, a -transfertable adapted' to travelon lthe transverserails, rails yon said f transfer table, skids pivoted to each side ,of

the table,.arock` shaft at each side of the'taa5 ble, canis thereonacting upon the skids, with means foroperating said cams in unison so asto raise the skids clear of the railway rails, substantiallyl asdescribed.

" 4. The combination of. the railway. rails,

vv3o -transverse rails', transfer" truck mounted on -v l`saidytransverse rails, rails on said transfer truck, a 'skid'.pivoted to oneside of said trans.-

fer'trnck, a rock shaft mounted below said.

3. The 'combination of the railway rails, the

skid, a cam or cams on said rock shaft and acting upon the skid, an armon said shaft, 35 a hand lever and a connecting rod connectin g the handlever to the arm. so that when the hand lever is moved the skids areraised, substantially as described.

' 5. The combination of the transfer truck, 4o the skids pivoted on eachside thereof, cam shafts mounted under the pivots of the skids, 'ca-mson saidam shaftflngs depending from `the skids against which the camsact, an arm on each shaft, with a pivoted operating lever, 4 5connecting rods, one attached tov cach arm and connected 'to-thelever,one on one side ofY vthe lever and the other on the opposite sideso that on operating the-lever the skids will be raisedl or allowed-todrop, substantiallyl as 5o described.

.6. The combination of a transfer table, the skid pivoted thereto,supporting blocks on said skid,and plates thereon forming flangesY "sothatwhen the skid'is lowered upon the 55

